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REPAIRING.

OF all kinds, promptly done on short notice,
Steam Engines, and agricultural machinery OF
anv kind overhauled and repaired. Besides,
any class of work that may be wanted in his
shop, he will attend any call for repairing sta
tionery engines. doing the work on the preml-
SEES, thus obviating the necessity of moyingt the
engine.
Prices reasonable. Terms, cash on the com
n,at;on If the work, EDWARD THOMAS.
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~Omaha Man-"Well, like all the rest
of US, you married an angel, of course? 81
Young Husband-''She is not an angel in
one respect but she is in another
Found that out, eh ?" eyes; angels
don't wear $50 bonnets. She does" "Oh,
but she is an angel in one respect you
Think" "Yes; angels can't cook. Meth
or can she.O
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-08

GRASS MEDIC1NE.-You have all doubt.
less seen. or heard that dogs bite off and
eat grass as a remedy for sick stomach.
At q corn husking, one afternoon, one
of the huskers was exercising his wit upon
a ten year old lad, chatting him so unmer-
cifully that the little fellow subsidized into
q rueful silence. The man finally paused,
coughed, rubbed his stomach, and said
that he felt q little sick.
"Eat some grass" gravely advised the
boy.
That boy wore the plume the rest of the
eyening.-Greens6oro Workman.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-08

A FAIR VALUATIoN.-Lawyer Ito eli
ent9-You want to sue Robinson for $500
for libel, you say?
Client-Yes ; he has blasted my charac-
ter forever.
Lawyer-You think $500 the proper
amount?
Client-Well, make it $3.50. I only want
what's ripht.-Harper'S Bdzdr.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-08

The RIPEsT YEAR OF HUMAN LIFE
The venerable James Jackson, who was
the Nestor of the medical profession for so
long a time in Boston, used to say that a
man came to the prime ofshis effective
faculties when he was sixty-five years old.
He said it was true that the curve of phys
ical strength was then declining. But ex-
perience, and the ability to act, which
comes from experience, are, of course, con-
stantly improving while memory holds.
According to DIR. Jackson, the curve ofex-
perience, and the curve of physical life
cross each other at the age of sixty-tive.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-08

WHITE SLAvERY.-The condition of
some of the Pennsylvania miners, as
shown in an article elsewhere, reveals a
worse state of slavery prevailing in the
keystone State than eve existed south OF
Mason and Dixon's line. A good many
laboring men have laughed when thet term
"slave" was applied to their felloW-Work-
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1887. WEST LIBERTY STREET. 1887.
YOrkyille Livery and Feed Stables


4 RI still on a boom, and the year 1887 finds
N me with some of the finest Vehicles ever
shown in the Livery business in Yorkville, and
surpassed by none. Everything will be kept
in the best style. Give me a trial and be con-
WINGED.
Cincinnati and Columbus Buggies
Of every description will be kept. Spring
Wagons, Phetons, &C., of the best make, al.
ways on hand.
FOR FUNERALS
I have a fine Queen City Hearse and a Clarence
Coach, which will be sent to any part Of the
county at short notice. Terms reasonable.
A Big Bargain.
I have a Jumpseat Ph@ton and some Bug
gies on hand that I will give a big bargain in,
if sold soon to make room for my new stock.
HAVE YOUR HORSES FED
At the Yorkville Livery and Feed Stables
where they will receive the best attention.
F. f. SMITH.
October ID Al tt
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The VEGETABLE LIFE IN THE EVER
GLADEs.-The Everglades Of Florida pre-
sent a world of vegetable life Of a semi
tropical character. The Indiarubber tree
abounds in sufficient growth to suggest its
subsection to utility. Many of the trees
are of large size, varying from twenty to
fifty feet in height, and having diameters
often exceeding two feet. Their growth is
suggestive of many purely tropical species,
the limbs bending ver and taking root in
the soil. When notched they emit a white
fluid in large quantities, which gradually
thickens and becomes dark in color. The
cabbage-palms are the most conspicuous
objects throughout the regions. They
grow on all islands and on the outskirts.
Their appearance in a Windstorm is very
much like a cluster of inverted umbrellas
braced against a gale. The cypress pre-
sents the same peculiar appearance here
as elsewhere. Its roots bend over, above
ground and water, with all appearance not
unlike a human knee when doubled.
These innumerable projections, appropri-
ately termed 'cypress knees" are un-
doubtedly the elimination of an effort on
the part of nature to propagate new trees,
with the result of producing rudimentary
trunks. Buttonwood, ash and other trees,
are found on the islands, and i%ntersperse
the e%nvironing clumps of woodland. The
most dense semi-tropical growth lies be-
tween Lake Okeechobee and the saWgrass'
Here is a belt Of trees comprising every
species of the regions, thickly interlaced
with the vines of gourd, and often forming
a solid, almost impenetrable, wall.
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ps-Y Young Man Whispering tojeweler)-
"That engagement ring l bought OF you
yesterday" ,.
Jeweler-"What's the matter with it?
Didn't it fit 2"
Young man (cautiously)-"Sh! It didn't
have q chance. Gimme collar buttons for
it,n
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You CAN'T MAKE DEATH CHEERFUL.
"No," said a Brooklyn undertaken, 81
can't say that any one has adopted q
wreath of flowers as a death signal, as did
the Beecher family. You should think it
would become fashionable? Well, it
might. There are fashions in everything,
even undertaking. The idea is right and
beautiful, but it isn't likely to grow, You
can't make death cheerful. The Chinese
are the only people whodo. Whites their
mourning color and flowers and feasts &C.
company their funerals. They think q
mans life only begins when it ends-ifthat
is not too Irish for you. But this country's
different. The big knots of black that
futter from bell knobs are not going to
vanish yet, and won't this side of the mil
lennium. Yet I'd rather hang up flowers
thai ,n-NeW York Sun.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-08

I6- It was spiteful but spitefulness can
not be legislated out of human nature.
'Did you hear that Mrs. Smith is having
her picture painted?" "You don't say!
That old thingH "Yes, indeed !; painted
in OIL" swell, I never! In oil! If she
ever wants to have q good likeness she'll
have to be painted in vinegar"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-08

HEjWoULD WAIT AwHILE.-"Maype
I hat to fail before spring." said a Penn
sylvania merchant to a travelling salesman
who was trying to sell him a bill of goods.
"But you are worth $4,000 and have
only $4,000 worth of stock. You'd have
to pay 81 for one if you failed"
'Great hefens! vhusi it like dot? Well,
den l keep righton On, and you may send me
some more sugar und tea und coffee. l
Wait until 1 vas worth $1,000 0 and hat $780,
600 worth of stock."-WdW Street Nears.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-08

mr A red-nosed gentleman asked a wit
whether he believed in spirits. "Ay, sir"
replied he, looking him full in the face,
II see too much evidence before me to
doubt that
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attend the. Confederate caucus which caus

attend the. Confederate caucus which caus-
ed the break in the country"
Col. McFall is one of those original and
interesting takers who holds his listeners
long and well, and intersperses his nara
tives with many comical expressions. AL
though he was heart and soul with the
South in her struggle, the Union can boast
no better subject to-day.
One of his quaint experiences, as related
to the NeWs man, was at Port Royal in
1876, when the negroes were going to mob
the whites. Upon this occasion the Col
onel mounted a stump and said: =.
"What in the world do you want to moi
me for? You seem to forget that [ was
the man who brought you fellows over
here from Africa to make Senators, Con.
eressmen and respectablepeople of you!'
This seemed to have the desired effect
and the angry crowd left Col. McFall un-
Observation-Disclosures Ne1CS.
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nasrA contemporary mentions a case be.
yond the ordinary oculist. 1t is that of
young lady you, instead of a pupil, has
q professor in her eye.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-08

@rDon't look at your boy when he is
speaking" writes a father. ut embar-
raises him when he is explaining how he
happened to be in school and out playing
ball at the same time"
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@- "Don't be a fool" she said, with a
snap, to her husband.
"Why didn't you tell me that when !
asked you to marry me ?" he replied, anu
silence fell upon that house.
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WHAT HE HoPED.-Brown-What was
it that Fogg said to you about me?
Boggs-He said you were no better than
you should be.
Brown-I hope you told him 1 was.-
.JudQe.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-08

A GALLANT Young MAN.-She gazing
upward)-How bright the stars are to-
night, Mr.. Samson!
He (promptly)-They are not brighter,
Miss Clara, than-than-
She (softly)-Than what, Mr.. Sampson ?
He-Than they @ere last night.-New
York Sun.
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ACoNFUsIoN OF IDEAs.-Omaha man
Seems to me your face looks familiar.
Amt you the dentist who pulled a tooth
for me in Blank City?
Stranger-I used to live in Blank City,
but am not a dentist. | was a justice OF
the peace for some years there.
Oh! now I know. You are the man
that married me.-Omaha World.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-08

Makes NosE.-Maxie vas the little
6-year-old daughter of a clergyman who
had taken great pains with her religious
instruction, and had held before her the
goodness of the Supreme Being, so thai
she should have in her mind always Ills
kindness and mercy as well as power
One morning her mother, passing the open
door of the room in which the child was
playing saw Miss Make standing on q
chair before the mirror, with her face
close to it, s~crutinizing her little phiz WIN
remarked
81 don't see how God could have given
me such a nose, when He knew how par
ticular I am."-Haper's Magazine.
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FOUNDRY
AND
Machine Shop.

the public that he now has in operation, on
his lot on Kings Mountain Street, a FOUND
RY AND MACHINE SHOP, in which he 1s
prepared to do all manner of work in light iron
and brass castings, and general machine work.
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!. & l. MARROW GAUGE RAILROAD
6GhMRNI.@7E!@5zzzf4
q" 80" :"
GOING SOUTH.

cCHEDULE of Mail and Passenger Trains
i from Lepoir, N. c., to Chester, S. C.,taking
effect ats O'Clock, A. M. Sunday, May 20, 1887:
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A TASK OF GREAT PERIL.-The task of
successfully boarding an iceburg with
picks and bars is no easy one. 1t is almost
as exciting as the pursuit of a whale, and
is often full of danger to the unwary. 1t
is the testimony of those who have expe-
rience in this business that you cannot
Judge an iceberg as simple men frequently
attempt to judge a horse-by mere out
ward appearances. The berg you are ap-
preaching may tower up majestically,
with a glistening rounded summit ike
the dome on the Capitol at Washington, or
it may rear splendid picturesque spires,
like those of a cathedral, or be turreted
like the castle at Windsor. Its vast pro-
portions and architectural beauty may give
it in your eyes an appearance OF enormous
stability, while in truth its foundations are
rickety and unstable.
There is no way of telling what an ap-
parently sedate iceberg may indulge in at
any moment. Its submerged base may be
a gigantic mass balancing the exposed por-
ton of the berg as firmly upright as a
house built upon a rock, or it may be the
most veritable fraud and makeshift of a
foundation.
Icebergs rising hundreds of feet in the
air, with brilliant scintillating turrets and
spires have been known to tOpple over
without a moments warning. Unlike the
forest trees and other works of lofty nature
on the land, decay in the iceberg begins,
not at the top, but at the root, the warmer
temperature of the water melting it at its
base. Moreover, the iceberg seldom pre-
sents an easily accessible side to those who
would board it, the task of boarding a berg
being very much in the nature of scaling
a perpendicular wall of glass, with con-
slant and immediate danger of a slide into
the sea. The occupation in which these
much greater peril than one would at first
imagine.
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Mnmoruns department.

.SAyE THAT HoG."-An old sailor re-
Gently spun a yard to the Martha's Vine
ward Herald, in which he said: IA spank
ing breeze was driving the ship, every
thing drawing allow and aloft, when the
cry, MAN overheard startled the ships,
company. The captain came on deck, and,
looking over the taffrail of the rapidly re-
ceding object and observing the good speed
the ship was making, said, Poor fellow.
God help him; I'm sorry for him, but we
must take advantage of this breeze in the
interest of the owners Just then a sail
or who had been on the lookout ran aft
and said, Captain, it wa not a man, but
a hog Aha said the captain, hard
a-port, back the main yard, clear away
the boat, and save that hog"
"A GREAT PROBLEM SoLvED.-Drunk
man-"Professor, 'fessor! Come here
hic-secon'. You're 'neducated man:
'Portant~ question wants to ask We. Want
to ask ye-shay-hic-is tn earth round %
Professor-"It is approximately round,
my friend. It is what scientific men call
an oblate spheroid, but in ordinary, com
mon-place everyday conversation 1t IS
perfectly proper to speak of it as ound."
Drunk man-''That settles it."
Professor-'Settles what, my friend 2"
Drunk man-"Solves the problem,
splains the riddle, Ioocidates the mystery.
Explanation perfectly satisfactory, sir.
Every thin splained boofully. Knew
suthin' matter the earth. Can't stan upon
the blamed thing. S'round. Counts TOR
it. Can't STAN up OF q blame roun'
thing H'-LNnn Union. Is:
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THE GUM SHOE MYsTERY.-"What
makes rubbers wear out so fast ~noWadays:"
was asked of a leather dealer.
sob, YOU needn't wonder at their wear
ing out. They are made of old rubbers
ground up and mixed with a trife of crude
gum" -,
"How extensively is that carried on ?"
swell a dealer told me of one manufac-
turer who last year ground up 10000 O n
of old rubber shoes to make new ones.
They pay three or four cents per pound for
them. [ remember the time when you
could get what were then called gums,
made on a block in Africa, that would last
q man longer than a box of the frauds OF
to-day. Still you can go to a trustworthy
dealer, and for 81 get a pair OF rubbers that
will last q year. A large number OF facto-
ries have been built just for the purpose of
grinding up old rubbers." ..
CHEESE Two CENTURIES OLD.-Boyd
Winchester, the consul-general OF the
United States to Switzerland, has just COM
pleted some exhaustive researches IN re-
gard to the cheese industry of that country.
He has made certain discoveries that the
cheese makers of this country will be a
little slow to believe. He claims to have
seen cheeses that are more than 2OO years
old. One of the customs that formerly
prevailed in the cheese region of that
country, Mr.. Winchester says, was for the
friends of the bride and bridegroom to join
in the presentation on the wedding-day
of an elaborate cheese. This cheese was
used as a family register and heirloom on
which births, marriages and deaths are
recorded. He says that he has seen some
of these "old cheeses" that date back to
1860. In many parts of Switzerland cheese
forms the principal diet of the people. He
says the new cheese often causes sickness.
When this is the case the patient is treat,
ed in the homeopathic fashion with Old
cheese, which generally effects a cure.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-06-08

Too SMART.-A business man Of Detroit
has Just discharged a clerk for being too
f~acetious. It is to be hoped the lesson Will
be needed by other young men inclined TO
be funny. The employer sent out to pur'
chase a blue lead pencil. When the boy
returned with the pencil the clerk re-
marked gravely:
"That expense. might have been saved,
"By what means?" demanded his en-
ployer.
write blue"
"Indeed," said the gentleman, hecom-
ing interested, chow would you manage
"By simply writing BLUE"
He feels blue now.
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ts- "Did you look under the bed 2" in.
auired q wife of her husband after he had
turned out the light and got fairly set
tied for q good nights rest. "No," was
the blunt response. "Well, suppose there
is q man there" said the alarmed woman.
81 don't want to see him if there is" was
the answer. Well, get up and look; l
shall not let you rest until you do" He
knew her of old, and, after fumbiing
around found q match, lit it and looked
under the bed and whispered: my dear,
there is 8 man under the bed"
"Oh, get out!" was the quick response:
"You can't fool me. I know better"
Then she turned over perfectly satisfied
and went to sleep. She had accomplish
ed her obiect.-EtmirG Gazette.
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men in the "protected'' industries, but if
a more complete ownership of man was
aver attempted than by the firm in CUES
ton, the fact has escaped the pen of the
historian. The Pennsylvania coal barons
are among Uncle Sans most favored
children, and they take advantage of his
kind "protection" to not only mulct the
coal consumers, but to rob the poor miner
of every cent, he earns and to take from
him the last remnant ofpersonal liberty
Banner of Liberty.
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FOR RENT,

THE house 81 Trumbull street, between
A::;l Hillhouse avenue and Prospect street: In
MDlIN oIire of CHAS A. WHITE,
a72 1Tt SO Church Street
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A Clergyman Wanders Away.

CHICAGO, April 20.-The Rev. Robert w.
Springer, the new assistant rector of Grace
Episcopal parish, is missing since Monday.
He was suffering from nervous prostration
due to his excessive application to the duties
of his parish. Sunday he was delirious and
threatened with brain fever. Monday morn
ing he seemed rational and sent his friend
and attendant on an errand. When he re-
turned Mr.. Springer had risen, packed his
satchel and left No clue to his whereabouts
has been found since and it is feared he has
found grave in the lake or river.
LATER.-Mr. Springer turned up at his
sisters home this afternoon and was at once
removed to ST. Luke's hospital, where it was
discovered that he was suffering from con-
gestion of the brain doubtless produced by
oyerwork. 1t is supposed that after he left
the hotel he went to some obscure lodging
house and remained hidden away until he
obeyed an impulse to go to his sisters. He
will probably shortly recover his mental and
physical health.
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NEW HAVEN OPERA HOUSE.
AGreat Mistake

has heretofore been made in the treatment of
rheumatism, neuralgia and nervous or sick
headache. This is evidenced by the failure
on the part of thousands of sufferers to find
relief, even though they have exhausted the
skill of various physicians and tried numer-
GUS so-called remedies. To such Athlophor-
os is offered as safe, sure, and quick cure.
Its success has been phenomenal, and yet it
is not surprising because it will do all that
is claimed for it. The Athlophoros Co. will
gladly refer any who desire to make an in
vestigation to reliable parties who have been
cured by it.
SO Ruggles ST., Providence, R. I.
There is no use of talking or complaining
of having rheumatism. Just buy bottle or
| two of Athlophoros and you won't know
what rheumatism is after you take them.
was down with that disease fourteen weeks,
had the doctor attending me, was helpless
and suffered much pain; well, I was SO low
it was necessary to have two men to assist
and move me in bed. I then, on the advice
of a friend who had tried it, commenced u.s.
ing Athlophoros. Two hours after using it,
why I could use my limbs around. The i'm
provement was so marked and quick we all
had good laugh, SO you may know there
was a change. Well I kept on taking the
medicine till I used nearly three bottles. Yes
sir, that stuff is the best thing in the coun-
| try for the cure of rheumatism. like it
and could keep on taking it until the "cows
come home" VIM. N. BROWN.
Three doses of Athlophoros relieved me
| from very acute attack of infammatory
rheumatism in nine hours Iconsider it an
| invaluable remedy for rheumatic affections,
and esteem it a pleasure to recommend Ath-
| 1ophoros. HENRY L. HALL,
Editor journal, Willimantic, Conn.
Every druggist should keep Athlophoros
| and Athlophoros Pills, but where they can
| not be bought of the druggist the Athlophor-
os Co., 112 Wall ST., New York, will send
either carriage paid on receipt of regular
| price. whichis 81 per bottle for Athlophoros
| and SOC for Pills.
For liver and kidney diseases, dyspepsia, indiges
ton, weakness, nervous debility, diseases Of Wo
| men constipation, headache, impure blood, &c.
| Athophoros Pills unequalled.
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BRILLIANT LECTURE.
Lecture Tonight by Rev. DR.. Munger
-ssRrnun GrevIock TO TacOma.s,

Lecture Tonight BY Rev. DIR. Munger
-ssFrom Greylock TO Tacoma"
The lecture this evening by Rev. T. T.
Munger, D. D., in the new and commodious
United church chapel at No. 3O2 Temple
street deserves large audience. The lee
turer, who has an enviable reputation as a
scholar and who has given great satisfaction
to his congregation in this city as preacher,
has consented to deliver his lecture "From
Greylock to Tacoma" for the benefit of Shiu-
kichi Shigemi. This young Japanese came
two years ago to this country and city anx-
ious to secure an education. He is now a
member of the junior class of the Sheffield
Scientific school owing to his own faithful
attention to his studies and to financial as
sistance rendered by many citizens of New
Haven who acquainted themselves early with
his needs A large number of tickets have
already been sold. The price has been fixed
at the moderate sum of twenty-five cents.
and tickets may be obtained at Jarman's
| bookstore or at the door. The doors will
1 open at 1880 o'clock and the lecture will com
kmence promptly at 8 O'Clock.
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FOR RENT.

- A desirable, pleasantly located, twelve
EM;;iI room dwelling, within one block OF Chape
HzsesA street hor. Gears. House has bathroom anc
all conveniences. Barn adjoining if desired.
ago 3t EDW. MALLEY, 928 Chapel st.
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JAMESTOWN, N. Y, April 20.-Ed Perry's
gambling rooms wer 9 raided by the police
last night and ten men were captured. Among
them were Harry Williams and John Kane,
who have no visible means of support. This
morning Kane was given two hours to leave
town and Williams was held in 5000 ball
Soon after Kane left the court a dwelling
house on Buffalo street was entered by a
thief who proved to be Kane. He was
brought back and held. The authorities
say that Kane's picture is in the rogues'
gallery
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FOR RENT.

RI. r.. BALDWIN'S
Real Estate Agency, s1s Chapel St.